The indispensable man of the Pentagon
Here’s an excerpt from Samuel Huntington’s classic 1959 book, The Soldier and the State: The principal antagonist of the Joint Chiefs within the central defense […]
Wilfred McNeil
You can’t make decisions based on 40,000 pages of paper, McNamara was wrong
MCNEIL: … the budget system got pretty complicated under [Robert] McNamara. It took them years to wake up to the fact that he was not […]
First DoD Comptroller slams naive reformers who invented PPBS
Here’s DoD’s third Comptroller Charles Hitch testifying to Congress about the need for the new management system he was implementing in DoD: the Planning, Programming, […]
The Pentagon’s first comptroller was against merging the armed forces
In 1972, Jerry Hess interviews Wilfred McNeil, the Department of Defense’s Comptroller for the first five Secretaries of Defense: HESS: What were your views on […]